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Terrible statement for three reasons:
1) Antisemites are protesting a synagogue event, and he condemns the people inside the synagogue — not the mob outside.
2) Protecting citizens is not a favor from the mayor. It is the job.
3) And, as usual, he is wrong on the law. Let me explain:
1) Antisemites are protesting a synagogue event, and he condemns the people inside the synagogue — not the mob outside.
2) Protecting citizens is not a favor from the mayor. It is the job.
3) And, as usual, he is wrong on the law. Let me explain:
Let’s start with the most basic point. There is no “international law” that binds New York City. In fact, what most activists call “international law” is a loose assortment of nonbinding resolutions, aspirational norms, and political declarations.
None of these override the constitutional framework under which American cities operate. NYC is governed by the Constitution, federal statutes, state law, and municipal code. Federal law preempts state/local law and nothing is displaced by any external international regime.
Anyone in the Ohio elections mention Les Werner?
He has a Chabad network set up in Ohio that traffic‘s drugs, weapons and humans around the world that links back to Hungary and Israel.
Your Vice President had to get his blessing before getting involved in politics, and Peter Thiel has set up multiple Palantir facility’s in Ohio and then there’s the Anduril plant disaster.
Women are masters at sensing emotional vulnerabilities. Once she identifies what makes you flinch, what makes you doubt yourself, or what triggers you, she will weaponize it:
Often unconsciously, sometimes deliberately.
1. Your shame about your past, your looks, your height, your money, or your failures? She’ll poke it when she wants to lower your value.
1. Your shame about your past, your looks, your height, your money, or your failures? She’ll poke it when she wants to lower your value.
2. Your fear of losing her, being alone, or not being “enough”? She’ll use withdrawal and silence to control you.
New Pangram validation!
You know how most books on Amazon are AI slop now? If you didn't, look at the publication numbers.
Compare those to the proportion Pangram flags as AI-generated. It's fully aligned with the implied numbers based on the rise over 2022 publication levels!
You know how most books on Amazon are AI slop now? If you didn't, look at the publication numbers.
Compare those to the proportion Pangram flags as AI-generated. It's fully aligned with the implied numbers based on the rise over 2022 publication levels!
Similarly, the rise of pro se litigants has come with a rise in case filings detected as being AI-generated, and with virtually zero false-positives before AI was around.
You can also see the rise of AI-generated text and yet more evidence for Pangram's validity from looking at different journalists.
Large portions of the journalistic profession are lazy, so they cheat when they can.
For example, the Guardian's Bryan Graham = slop
Large portions of the journalistic profession are lazy, so they cheat when they can.
For example, the Guardian's Bryan Graham = slop
🧵The NZ-India Free Trade Agreement, complete list. What each country actually gave up.
🇳🇿 WHAT NEW ZEALAND OPENED:
• Every category of goods. Food, machinery, chemicals, vehicles, textiles, every line. Tariff goes to zero on day one. No exclusions, no phasing in, no quotas.
• Every service sector. NZ is open to Indian companies by default, apart from a specific list of what stays protected: Air NZ ownership, Chorus ownership, ACC, KiwiSaver, public health and education, fishing access, gambling, tobacco and alcohol retail, Fonterra and Zespri's structures, the Treaty of Waitangi exception (for digital trade only). Notable examples of what NZ did NOT put on the protection list: Spark, 2degrees, One NZ, the banking sector, electricity generation, ports and airports, doctors and dentists, private schools, universities, audit firms, aged care, newspapers, law firms.
• A commitment to push US$20 billion (around NZ$33 billion) of NZ investment into India over 15 years. India has no reciprocal target to invest in NZ. If NZ underdelivers, India alone decides whether NZ has fallen short. India alone decides what "proportionate" tariff claw-back to apply. NZ cannot challenge any of it through any panel. The political pressure to deliver lands on NZ Super Fund, ACC, KiwiSaver providers and large NZ corporates to direct savings to India for treaty-performance reasons rather than commercial return.
• 1,000 Indian working holiday visas a year. Nothing equivalent for young New Zealanders going to India.
• 4,100 visa-holders present at any one time across capped skilled-worker categories (IT, engineering, construction, teachers, nurses, physios, plus 600 reserved spots for chefs, yoga teachers, classical musicians and Ayush practitioners).
• An uncapped channel for Indian companies operating in NZ to bring in their own staff with no cap and labour market tests banned. Much like the controversial US H1B - though it is capped at 85,000 per year, is for any company, and has a $100,000 fee.
• Uncapped Indian international student visas. Extended locked-in 2, 3 and 4 year post-study work visas.
• Legally protect the basmati name for Indian rice growers within 18 months.
• Stop NZ insurers from being told to exclude coverage of homeopathy and traditional Indian medicine.
• Working with India on connecting NZ's payment systems to India's national instant-payment network and building central bank digital currencies (like a digital NZ dollar issued by the Reserve Bank). The Reserve Bank of NZ now has obligations on payments policy that it didn't have before. Future decisions about how NZ's payment systems develop are tied to bilateral commitments with India rather than purely Reserve Bank policy.
• If any future trade deal that NZ signs includes better services terms, it gets automatically extended to India. India made no equivalent commitment to NZ so it can give other countries better terms than it gave NZ.
• NZ taxpayers and industry help commercialise Indian apple, kiwifruit, honey and wine growers to upgrade their orchards and supply chains. The same growers we'd be competing with. India can suspend the small NZ market access quotas if it judges we underdelivered. NZ Crown research institutes (Plant & Food Research, AgResearch, Scion) and industry levy bodies (Zespri, NZ Apples & Pears, Apiculture NZ) must divert research budgets and grower-funded levies to build Indian capacity.
🇳🇿 WHAT NEW ZEALAND OPENED:
• Every category of goods. Food, machinery, chemicals, vehicles, textiles, every line. Tariff goes to zero on day one. No exclusions, no phasing in, no quotas.
• Every service sector. NZ is open to Indian companies by default, apart from a specific list of what stays protected: Air NZ ownership, Chorus ownership, ACC, KiwiSaver, public health and education, fishing access, gambling, tobacco and alcohol retail, Fonterra and Zespri's structures, the Treaty of Waitangi exception (for digital trade only). Notable examples of what NZ did NOT put on the protection list: Spark, 2degrees, One NZ, the banking sector, electricity generation, ports and airports, doctors and dentists, private schools, universities, audit firms, aged care, newspapers, law firms.
• A commitment to push US$20 billion (around NZ$33 billion) of NZ investment into India over 15 years. India has no reciprocal target to invest in NZ. If NZ underdelivers, India alone decides whether NZ has fallen short. India alone decides what "proportionate" tariff claw-back to apply. NZ cannot challenge any of it through any panel. The political pressure to deliver lands on NZ Super Fund, ACC, KiwiSaver providers and large NZ corporates to direct savings to India for treaty-performance reasons rather than commercial return.
• 1,000 Indian working holiday visas a year. Nothing equivalent for young New Zealanders going to India.
• 4,100 visa-holders present at any one time across capped skilled-worker categories (IT, engineering, construction, teachers, nurses, physios, plus 600 reserved spots for chefs, yoga teachers, classical musicians and Ayush practitioners).
• An uncapped channel for Indian companies operating in NZ to bring in their own staff with no cap and labour market tests banned. Much like the controversial US H1B - though it is capped at 85,000 per year, is for any company, and has a $100,000 fee.
• Uncapped Indian international student visas. Extended locked-in 2, 3 and 4 year post-study work visas.
• Legally protect the basmati name for Indian rice growers within 18 months.
• Stop NZ insurers from being told to exclude coverage of homeopathy and traditional Indian medicine.
• Working with India on connecting NZ's payment systems to India's national instant-payment network and building central bank digital currencies (like a digital NZ dollar issued by the Reserve Bank). The Reserve Bank of NZ now has obligations on payments policy that it didn't have before. Future decisions about how NZ's payment systems develop are tied to bilateral commitments with India rather than purely Reserve Bank policy.
• If any future trade deal that NZ signs includes better services terms, it gets automatically extended to India. India made no equivalent commitment to NZ so it can give other countries better terms than it gave NZ.
• NZ taxpayers and industry help commercialise Indian apple, kiwifruit, honey and wine growers to upgrade their orchards and supply chains. The same growers we'd be competing with. India can suspend the small NZ market access quotas if it judges we underdelivered. NZ Crown research institutes (Plant & Food Research, AgResearch, Scion) and industry levy bodies (Zespri, NZ Apples & Pears, Apiculture NZ) must divert research budgets and grower-funded levies to build Indian capacity.
🇮🇳 WHAT INDIA OPENED ON DAY ONE:
• Sheep meat. India barely produces sheep.
• Wool. India needs raw wool for its textile mills.
• Logs, sawn wood and timber. India needs timber.
• Wood pulp and paper.
• Raw cotton fabric. India's textile industry needs the input.
• Raw leather hides. India's leather industry needs the input.
• Copper, nickel, aluminium, rare earth ores.
• Coal.
• Chemical and plastic inputs Indian manufacturers need.
• Computers and IT hardware.
• Iron and steel base products.
• Aircraft.
• Stone, ceramics, glass containers.
Pattern: India opened the raw materials its own export industries need to import.
• Sheep meat. India barely produces sheep.
• Wool. India needs raw wool for its textile mills.
• Logs, sawn wood and timber. India needs timber.
• Wood pulp and paper.
• Raw cotton fabric. India's textile industry needs the input.
• Raw leather hides. India's leather industry needs the input.
• Copper, nickel, aluminium, rare earth ores.
• Coal.
• Chemical and plastic inputs Indian manufacturers need.
• Computers and IT hardware.
• Iron and steel base products.
• Aircraft.
• Stone, ceramics, glass containers.
Pattern: India opened the raw materials its own export industries need to import.
🚫🇮🇳 WHAT INDIA PROTECTED FOREVER:
• All dairy (milk powder, butter, cheese, infant formula, dairy ingredients) at 30 to 60 percent tariffs. Fonterra's main export categories. The exception is access for NZ dairy ingredients used for Indian export manufacturing. India captures the value-add margin.
• All meat except sheep. Beef, pork, poultry, goat, offal.
• All tea at 110 percent. All coffee at 100 to 110 percent. All spices at 33 to 77 percent. All edible oils. All sugar at 110 percent.
• 89 percent of vehicles. Cars at 70 to 137 percent. Motorcycles. Tractors. Vehicle parts. The 11 percent India accepted: bicycles, wheelchairs and baby carriages.
• 97 percent of ships. Every vessel including fishing vessels and naval craft.
• Half of consumer electronics. Mobile phones, semiconductors, integrated circuits and cathode-ray displays walled off. The half India accepted is industrial transformers, lighting and power conversion gear.
• All primary aluminium. The Tiwai Point smelter's main export.
• All gold and all jewellery.
• Most major medical devices. MRI, ECG, dialysis, defibrillators, syringes, catheters, anaesthetic equipment all excluded. Sorry Fisher and Paykel. India phased in surgical instruments, endoscopes, hearing aids, X-ray and CT scanners over 10 years. While protecting these from NZ exports, India required NZ's Medsafe to accept Indian device approvals without inspecting them.
• Two thirds of plastics. The third India accepted is specialty industrial resins (Teflon-type, polyurethanes, silicones, epoxies). Mass-market polymers walled off.
• All petrol. All ethanol blend fuel.
• All processed traditional Indian medicines including Ayurvedic and homeopathic preparations.
• Most processed fruit and vegetable products. India accepted only roasted cashews and ground nuts over 7 to 10 years. Pickles, chutneys, jams, juices, preserved vegetables walled off.
• All tobacco. 71 percent of books and printed material (greeting cards in, books and newspapers out). Almost half of finished textile products like sheets and towels.
• The right to slap punitive "anti-dumping" tariffs on NZ exports any time India decides NZ exporters are selling too cheap. NZ has no way to challenge those tariffs through the deal's dispute system. India launches more anti-dumping investigations than any other country in the world. Fonterra has been hit with this before on milk powder.
So even when NZ exports clear the tariff schedule, India can slap a new tariff on top under a different label, and NZ cannot push back.
• All dairy (milk powder, butter, cheese, infant formula, dairy ingredients) at 30 to 60 percent tariffs. Fonterra's main export categories. The exception is access for NZ dairy ingredients used for Indian export manufacturing. India captures the value-add margin.
• All meat except sheep. Beef, pork, poultry, goat, offal.
• All tea at 110 percent. All coffee at 100 to 110 percent. All spices at 33 to 77 percent. All edible oils. All sugar at 110 percent.
• 89 percent of vehicles. Cars at 70 to 137 percent. Motorcycles. Tractors. Vehicle parts. The 11 percent India accepted: bicycles, wheelchairs and baby carriages.
• 97 percent of ships. Every vessel including fishing vessels and naval craft.
• Half of consumer electronics. Mobile phones, semiconductors, integrated circuits and cathode-ray displays walled off. The half India accepted is industrial transformers, lighting and power conversion gear.
• All primary aluminium. The Tiwai Point smelter's main export.
• All gold and all jewellery.
• Most major medical devices. MRI, ECG, dialysis, defibrillators, syringes, catheters, anaesthetic equipment all excluded. Sorry Fisher and Paykel. India phased in surgical instruments, endoscopes, hearing aids, X-ray and CT scanners over 10 years. While protecting these from NZ exports, India required NZ's Medsafe to accept Indian device approvals without inspecting them.
• Two thirds of plastics. The third India accepted is specialty industrial resins (Teflon-type, polyurethanes, silicones, epoxies). Mass-market polymers walled off.
• All petrol. All ethanol blend fuel.
• All processed traditional Indian medicines including Ayurvedic and homeopathic preparations.
• Most processed fruit and vegetable products. India accepted only roasted cashews and ground nuts over 7 to 10 years. Pickles, chutneys, jams, juices, preserved vegetables walled off.
• All tobacco. 71 percent of books and printed material (greeting cards in, books and newspapers out). Almost half of finished textile products like sheets and towels.
• The right to slap punitive "anti-dumping" tariffs on NZ exports any time India decides NZ exporters are selling too cheap. NZ has no way to challenge those tariffs through the deal's dispute system. India launches more anti-dumping investigations than any other country in the world. Fonterra has been hit with this before on milk powder.
So even when NZ exports clear the tariff schedule, India can slap a new tariff on top under a different label, and NZ cannot push back.
Supreme Court Decision on Mifepristone
On May 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily restored nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower court ruling that had reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement.
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On May 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily restored nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower court ruling that had reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement.
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Justice Samuel Alito issued an administrative stay that allows the drug to continue being prescribed via telehealth, dispensed at pharmacies, and delivered by mail, maintaining the status quo as of May 1.
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The stay, effective through at least May 11, 2026, pauses a decision by the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had sided with Louisiana in its lawsuit against the FDA.
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Ukrainian EW and radio expert Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov was an early supporter of the importance of UGVs.
Here are excerpts from an interesting interview with him by ArmyInform.com.ua
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Here are excerpts from an interesting interview with him by ArmyInform.com.ua
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“If we’re touching on the topic of robots, including UGVs, it should be understood that someone has to control these robots, operate them, support them, and repair them. So humans are indispensable here.
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“But we are trying to make sure that the robots themselves take the first hit and work where it is most dangerous. Thanks to this, people will be able to stay further back — ‘pulled back’ — and, accordingly, in much greater safety.
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In 1862, Robert Smalls stole a Confederate Ship and sailed it to Freedom disguised as a captain, freeing his crew and their families.
A THREAD!
A THREAD!
In 1862, Robert Smalls was serving as the pilot of a steam powered, Confederate ship, The CSS Planter. It was transporting large guns out of Charleston Harbor and deliver them to Union Navy forces on blockade duty
On the evening of 12th May 1862, The ship was docked and the confederate officers left the ship to spend the night on shore, leaving the slave crew on board. Rob had gotten permission to bring the crew’s families on board for the evening, as long as they were gone before curfew.
Thread on the Lebanese govt project to disinherit the resistance and disown the Shia:
What is even more politically destructive and unconscionable than the Aoun-Salam government’s capitulation to Israel, and its joint counter-resistance security project with it, is that this project is also striving to excise from the national body politic the Shia community itself, not as a sect in the abstract, but as a political community constituted through resistance. 1/6
What is even more politically destructive and unconscionable than the Aoun-Salam government’s capitulation to Israel, and its joint counter-resistance security project with it, is that this project is also striving to excise from the national body politic the Shia community itself, not as a sect in the abstract, but as a political community constituted through resistance. 1/6
For in disinheriting the legacy of resistance and embracing the Israeli occupier as this government has done--and perhaps soon literally embracing the world’s most wanted war criminal and genocidaire, Netanyahu--it isn’t only Hizbullah as a military and political organisation that is being targeted, but more importantly its social base, the Shia community in its entirety, as well as those from other sects who support the resistance. 2/6
When President Aoun refers to resistance against Israel’s aggression and occupation as “the war of others on our land,” and more recently portrays it as “treason,” that charge naturally extends to all those from this land who have sacrificed for it not only their lives, but their children, homes, villages, livelihoods, memories, and the very possibility of remaining rooted in the land they are accused of betraying. 3/6
Here's the Quantum future — not as a platform document, but as a day in your life. Tell me which part you like the most 👇 🧵
You wake up in a house that generates its own energy. A small device on the exterior wall produces unlimited clean power 24/7. There's no electric bill. There hasn't been one for years. Your neighbors all have the same device. The street has no power lines. The sky above your neighborhood is wide open.
You check your phone. A notification from last night: your monthly data royalty hit — $1,387 this month, up from $1,250 last year. The AI systems that use your data to function are getting more sophisticated, which means your data is worth more every quarter. You don't think about it much anymore. It just shows up. Like interest used to, back when interest rates meant something.
now, your agent can fix itself.
introducing raindrop triage. an agent for finding and investigating agent issues.
introducing raindrop triage. an agent for finding and investigating agent issues.
it's a familiar scene: a customer complains that your agent is broken. now, someone has to spend hours digging through a dashboard to find the trace, and understand the problem.
with @raindrop_ai, that now takes just seconds. and you won't have to leave slack.
with @raindrop_ai, that now takes just seconds. and you won't have to leave slack.
you can set up recurring briefs like "every day, summarize weird tool call failures"
1. I had a really sad conversation recently with a leading African intellectual & Pan-Africanist on the anti-migrant protests in SA. He expressed surprise & disappointment at the ANC & broader political leaderships’ response to the protests. The exception was Malema & the EFF.
2. S/He said, ‘’as you know,Africans from outside SA are hard-working, entrepreneurial, survivors, & create jobs’’. Research supports this. It is not true that crime or illegal activity is centred in the immigrant community. South Africans are at the centre of the criminal world.
3. S/He held that the “Africans supported our struggle” line doesn’t address the issue at all. The root cause is the ANC’s failure to create decent jobs or fulfil people’s dreams. Crime is widespread, & law enforcement must take some of the blame. Political leadership is absent!
